Rhizobial symbiosis articles within Nature

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• Article | 08 July 2015

  Receptor-mediated exopolysaccharide perception controls bacterial infection

  This paper describes the discovery of the exopolysaccharide receptor (Epr3) in plants, and shows that its expression is induced upon perception of the bacterial Nod factors; the EPR3 receptor recognizes exopolysaccharides on the surface of rhizobia, thus controlling the symbiotic infection of the roots of legumes.

  • Y. Kawaharada
  • , S. Kelly
  •  & J. Stougaard

• Letter
  16 November 2011 | Open Access

  The Medicago genome provides insight into the evolution of rhizobial symbioses

  Sequencing of Medicago truncatula, a model organism of legume biology, shows that genome duplications had a role in the evolution of endosymbiotic nitrogen fixation.

  • Nevin D. Young
  • , Frédéric Debellé
  •  & Bruce A. Roe